Additional TAS Benefits?
- Thread starter Spinward Scout
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Love what you’re doing here. I’ve been playing around with similar ideas IMTU. You can really start to see the power of worlds that can export tech and industrial goods. Ag worlds seem to suffer where they should be powerhouses, need to work on that. But great food for thought, cheers.
Straybow
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<sweating>Must... resist... trade... debate...</sweating>
TAS could just subsidize ships of all classes, holding a Td (or several) in reserve for whatever they want to ship. Everything from tramps to megacorp superliners. They handle the logistics of moving shipments across sectors. Most luxury items are small or even miniscule. A piece of jewelry, packaged, might only be 100g, which would be Cr0.2/pc by kilemall's rule of thumb. The TAS agent handlers monitoring packages moving from one ship to another would cost more than that.
TAS could just subsidize ships of all classes, holding a Td (or several) in reserve for whatever they want to ship. Everything from tramps to megacorp superliners. They handle the logistics of moving shipments across sectors. Most luxury items are small or even miniscule. A piece of jewelry, packaged, might only be 100g, which would be Cr0.2/pc by kilemall's rule of thumb. The TAS agent handlers monitoring packages moving from one ship to another would cost more than that.
Condottiere
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Travel insurance might be nice, especially against possible medical costs against pandemics.
IMTU most interstellar banking is handled by TAS. Membership allows cash withdrawals, mortgage payments on vessels, pension payments and in certain cases, loans and financing. Data is generally just a few weeks old at most, relying on the X-Boat network as well as merchant-based mail services and, in some cases, chartered data deliveries.
I should note that the old “any Class A or B starport” paradigm doesn’t always work IMTU and the “mortgage payments recorded by transponder” idea doesn’t work at all.
TAS offices are almost always run by Imperial Nobles, many of whom hold more real power than the local planetary Nobles.
I should note that the old “any Class A or B starport” paradigm doesn’t always work IMTU and the “mortgage payments recorded by transponder” idea doesn’t work at all.
TAS offices are almost always run by Imperial Nobles, many of whom hold more real power than the local planetary Nobles.
Spinward Flow
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Now THERE'S a good idea!
I've oft assumed that the starport itself is the main fief on member worlds. This also gives a reason for the extrality: it's literally answerable turf only to the Noble and his chosen.
I dislike a monolithic "Star Port Authority" service; Real World inefficiencies have only increased this. (To avoid the political side, I'm not going into detail about the specific agencies and situations.)
For interstellar banking, I've had that be part of the IISS IMTU....
Condottiere
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There is the franchise model, franchise holder would the appointed Imperium noble, but administered by qualified personnel, trained at the subsector capital.
mike wightman
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The idea that the Imperial nobility have a hand in TAS would be anathema to the freedom loving peoples of the Spinward Marches who want less Imperial authoritarian control...
Spinward Flow
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Could try the Japanese model of letting Postal Unions get in on the banking services side of things. Those Postal Unions are going to have a presence on EVERY world that receives significant X-Mail deliveries and already be "plugged in" to the movements of goods and services across interstellar distances.
Paf, we’re merely here to provide a hand for infrastructure and growth opportunities. Authoritarian control, indeed!
mike wightman
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Now off to the prison hulk without trial while we make up a fiction for your disappearance...
Found it: it was Megatraveller Journal issue #1, on page 14
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